Does Your Sign Make Sense in English?

If English is not you mother tongue, it is very difficult to get the wording of your English documents right,
because the English language has more words than any other language on the planet.

Furthermore, that vocabulary of words is being aded to daily by Britain, the home of the language, the USA,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and many other countries where English is spoken by many
people.

If you run a business, you want your business to present a good, well-educated front to your potential
customers. You want to proove your attention to detail, you want to distinguish yourself from your competition.

So, how can our company help you?

Here are a few examples:

1] you are planning to have a new sign written which costs say, $1,000. You know what you want to say in your
language, but you doubt whether your knowledge of English is good enough to translate your thoughts.

2] you want to have brochures made for your products so that you make it easier for your staff to sell your
inventory to foreign customers or so that foreign customers can take a leaflet home to read later.

3] you own a restaurant and want your menu to look professional in English

4] you need to include an instruction book in English with your product.

What do you do?

a] trust your nephew who is learning English in school?
b] ask a friend who speaks English well?
c] trust the sign-writer or printer because they ought to know what they are doing?

Well, I can tell you, that none of the options above seems to work. I have walked down streets in Asia for a
decade and the way Asians are approaching this problem has definitely not worked.

Which is why I have set up this company. I will read your suggestion of what you want to write and will make
suggestions.
And keep on making suggestions until you are happy with the wording.

I am sure that you are wonering about my qualifications to do this job.

Fair enough.

I am 58 years old and have studied languages all my life.

English is my first language, my mother tongue and I come from the UK, where the language originated.

I have also learned Welsh, French, German, and Latin to a high level at school and Russian at
university and in the old USSR.

I learned Dutch to fluency in the Netherlands and am now learning Thai.